Boxing is the one sport where you don’t get penalized for creaming your opponent. In fact, you get rewarded.  It’s kind of like, she who punches the hardest and takes the most swings… wins.  So, in 2019, I have decided to become a boxing babe and box my way through 2019, making it my best year yet.

Don’t worry, I am not going to try and make an appearance on SMACKDOWN live. I don’t plan to have a career as a boxer. I haven’t completely lost my mind (not yet anyway). But I have decided that boxing my way through my life this year will be far more effective than making useless New Year’s resolutions that I normally break by 3 pm on January 1st.  Instead, I am putting up my dukes, eyeing my opponents, and going in for the kill.

Kill, God, I just said KILL. Don’t worry, I am not planning to kill any living thing. I never want to say ‘Orange is the New Black’. Rather, I am planning to kill the obstacles that keep me from living my life to its full potential with my new boxing babe mentality.  The obstacles are often the same resolutions that you make every year AND you break every year.  You know what I am referring to, right? The things in life that keep you stuck: in bad relationships, bad jobs, bad habits, oh god…. bad fashion choices… well, you get the idea.

So here are my suggestions as to how you can become a Boxing Babe in 2019 and clean up your shit!

Only allow people around you who support your efforts.  Anyone who puts you down, or doesn’t agree with your decisions about what you want to do with your life; well frankly, they have to go. In order for you to have success, you need to surround yourself with people who believe in you and applaud your efforts in life.  It’s kind of like cleaning out your refrigerator and throwing out the expired food.  Anyone who is not on TEAM YOU can no longer be around you.  The minute you let go of people who are suppressing you, you are allowing space for better energies to enter.  And they will. Because you are saying YES to you, you are allowing yourself to grow.  Positive energy is attractive, so only surround yourself with positive, loving, supportive people who truly LOVE you.

So, you want to lose weight, or get more fit, or give up smoking, or stop drinking, or maybe start drinking. Whatever it is, resolving to do something doesn’t always work. But, guess what? DOING it does! So how do we make difficult changes that we know we should make, but most likely, really don’t want to make? Well, I think the key to life is moderation, and anytime you make even baby steps towards bettering your health, your mind, and your body, you are telling YOU that YOU count.  So, this Boxing Babe is planning to ‘moderate’ the things I want to change.  I am going to make